Every student attending Tauranga Girls’ College agrees on enrolment to wear the uniform fully and correctly. The manner in which our students present themselves for daily work reflects their sense of pride. To maintain personal status and high standards for our College, it is important that all our students are well presented.

Uniform Transition in 2025

The uniform is not changing in 2025 only the Logo. To ensure a smooth transition, we’ve implemented a phased approach:

Current Logo Uniform: The current logo will remain in use until the end of 2026.

New Logo Uniform: New logo uniform items will be available for purchase from the end of December 2024.

Uniform Transition:

• All new students in 2025 are expected to wear the new uniform if purchasing new items.
• Existing students can continue wearing the old uniform until the end of 2026. (We will update you if there are any changes to this timeline).

• Please state the reason for the absence, and for an extended period of time state the dates.
  
  
• Students who are sick during the day, or who are injured while at school, are attended to in the Health Centre. Students who wish to visit the centre during classes must have a signed slip from their teacher.
  
  
• If a student is too ill to return to class, their parents will be notified to make arrangements for their daughter or young person to be collected.
  
  
• A student may not go home when sick without permission. A student is to not phone or text their whānau directly, they must go through the Health Centre and the school will contact their whānau. Please keep your contact details up to date.
  
  
• When a student has reached 5 days of unjustified absence in one term the whānau will be advised. Reasons that are considered unjustified absence include:

1. A holiday, whether within New Zealand or overseas. These should be planned outside term time.
2. Events like a birthday or a special day’s shopping are not considered valid reasons for being away from school.
3. With many parents working full time it can be difficult when younger family members are unwell. Asking your older sibling to babysit a younger sibling takes them away from their learning.

Donations Scheme and what it means for families

Tauranga Girls’ College have opted into the Ministry of Education's School Donations Scheme for the 2020 year.

This decision has been made in line with the school’s first emergent strategic intent of Flexible Student-centred Learning. Learning is designed to include opportunities where every student is encouraged to explore, challenge and innovate so that they may thrive now and move forward with confidence. The Board considers the reduction in costs to parents a likely contributor to increased student participation in the rich learning opportunities the school offers.

While the $150 per student offered under the Ministry’s scheme will not cover fully the cost of the opportunities provided to our students, the scheme gives the Board the opportunity to review our community funding sources and reduce the burden on families. It is the Board’s expectation that we will maintain the current learning offering to our students.

The Board acknowledges the scheme is likely to incur a financial cost to the school. Although it is impossible to quantify exactly the cost of this scheme the Board endeavours to underwrite the financial cost to enable the school to trial the scheme for the first year without impacting on the rich learning opportunities afforded to our students. Any voluntary donation that you make will of course assist us and we thank you for your commitment to our school by doing this.

The actual cost of the scheme will be able to be quantified before the decision for the 2021 year needs to be made.

Yvonne Handley,
Chair - Tauranga Girls' College Board of Trustees

You will note that because we have opted into the donations scheme a fees list does not exist but some costs will still need to be paid under this scheme. Some curriculum items have been clarified below. Note that extra-curricular activity costs such as sport, will still incur costs and will be charged to families.